Research and Development

Merck & Co’s decision to close down the former Organon facility in Oss, the Netherlands, looks set to be challenged …

US regulators have given the green light for the first human trial of an embryonic stem cell therapy to resume. …

UK medical research charity the Wellcome Trust and the Indian government are to jointly develop a range of innovative and …

AstraZeneca has appointed former FDA staffer Dr Bruce Burlington to its board as a non-executive director. Dr Burlington spent 17 …

Icon reports that new business wins rose healthily in the second quarter, plus there’s an alliance between PPD and Microsoft …

Belgium biotech company Cardio3 BioSciences has appointed Dr Atta Behfar as director for advanced research. He will spend a year …

 

Highlights• Revenues of £80.9 million, 9.8% ahead of the year ended March 2009. Of this, 1.5% is due to acquisitions, …

Let me take you back to a time that is now only dimly remembered. I don’t mean a time when …

The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation has appointed Sir Paul Nurse as its first director and chief executive. …

Sanofi-Aventis is understood to have approached the board of Genzyme with a takeover bid for the company. News agency Reuters …

A five-year study by scientists in the UK and US of the way genomes and cancer medicines interact has yielded …

The British Pharmacology Society (BPS) is the primary UK learned society concerned with research into drugs and the way they …

The European Commission has announced a €6.4 billion investment in research and innovation in a range of scientific disciplines including …

Pfizer has been told by the FDA to suspend trials of its novel injectable biotherapeutic tanezumab for chronic low back …